[Leica] IMG: trophy girl

[jayanand at gmail.com (Jayanand Govindaraj)]

The excitement is quite evident. I get caught out with what I think is the
wrong lens for a situation quite often, we have to improvise...part of the
fun of photographing in public places. BTW, in India, cameras with long
lenses are a no-no for any reasonably interesting sporting event, everyone
seems ultra conscious about image rights nowadays.
Cheers
Jayanand


On Sun, Aug 31, 2014 at 11:07 PM, Adam Bridge <abridge at mac.com> wrote:

> Sometimes you go with what you have.
>
> I was at the River Cats game last night with my Sony A7 and a Leitz 180mm
> f4 R lens playing with capturing some action shots. Non trivial with a
> manual focus lens. I admire the experts who, "back in the day", made so
> many great images this way!
>
> So I had the 180 on my camera where the little girl in front of us,
> insanely cute, was tossed a baseball by one of the players: a real ball, a
> "dirty" ball, stained with real infield dirt and maybe a grass stain or 
> two.
>
> I only had a few moments while she expressed joy. I could have wished for
> my 100mm but I had 180mm.
>
> <
> http://adam-bridge.smugmug.com/People/Portraits/22288982_39qLkn#!i=3499730077&k=DTDWvQ6&lb=1&s=X3
> >
>
> I've done this in black and white, treated as Tri-X in Exposure 6. I like
> the color version, which I have not posted, but the B&W just does the job
> better. And it needs that bit of film grain for some reason.
>
> Anyway - comments most welcome. I do know it's a little soft around the
> eyes but maybe that works to the image's advantage. I gave her mom my
> e-mail address but I think she was worried I might want to charge her for
> the picture or something nefarious. People are so damn wary these days.
> But, sigh, not without reason.
>
> Thanks for looking. Comments/critique most welcome and invited.
>
> Adam
>
>
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